An Amiga 1200 came in for repair, doesn’t boot and the Floppy drive LED is always on. After some inspections I found the problem, there is a crack in the Gayle chip. Flir images of the board to see if more chips are getting hot.. no abnormalities.. Removed gayle, under the chip 3 of the […]
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Marantz – SR7002 – blinking standby led
I fixed a Marantz SR-7002 from a friend of mine. The device had a blinking Standby LED at a interval of 500ms (p14 Service manual). Day 1 The relays where not switching to turn on the amplifier power, so the first thought was that there was a problem with the standby PCB. Tested serveral […]
a typewriter, book stand holder.. makes..
I wanted to make a cheap mount/arm suspension for my fume extractor. A while ago I got an electronic typewriter, that didn’t work anymore, and found a book stand holder (suspension) in a local thrift store for € 1,-. I used two parts from the type writer to mount the fume extractor to the arm […]
CD32 Controller D-Pad fix – 3D file
Simon Vergauwen wanted to have a part to fix a broken D-Pad for the Amiga CD32 Controller. I designed a part that can be used to fix the original D-Pad. You have to make some notches in the original D-pad to fit the fix. You can glue the fix into the original D-Pad. Simon didn’t […]
Commodore Magic Voice not working
Commodore Magic Voice came in for repair. The (speech) audio didn’t work or the speech was mangled. What I did: Reseated IC’s, didn’t fixed the problem. Measured the clock of the Y1 osc, which should be 640KHz, and it was sometimes 640KHz.. but mostly it was fluctuating. So I replaced the C1 & C2 ceramic […]